More trouble with automounting using hald in Gnome2-2.18.0

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 19:29 -0400, Dr. Gary E. RAFE wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> !Upgrade to hal-0.5.8-20070403 first.  In fact, update all ports to the 
> !latest first.  A lot of bugs have been fixed since the first GNOME 2.18 
> !package set was uploaded to MarcusCom.
> 
> A quick report regarding my results with hal-0.5.8.20070403
> built from ports on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 running 6.2-R.
> 
> Almost all of my umass-based devices "just worked":
> 
>  * SanDisk Cruzer Micro 256MB flash drive
>  * Lexar Media JumpDrive Sport 128MB flash drive
>  * Kingston DataTraveler U3 1GB flash drive
>    Note: Mounts as ISO CD device on /dev/cd1, ignores FAT32 fs at /dev/da0s1
>  * IOGear Pocket Drive Model GFR202SD SD Media reader
>  * Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 V2 MP3 player/recorder
>  * iRiver iHP-120 MP3/Ogg player/recorder
> 
> The one device that refuses to connect is an Archos Gmini XS200,
> which runs the Archos firmware.
> 
> On my first try, Gnome returned the ERROR Window: Cannot mount volume.
> Error _org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy_.
> Details:
> hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1xxx
> 
> After adding my local users to
> /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/privilege.d/hal-storage-fixed-mount.privilege,
> Gnome returns the ERROR Window: Cannot mount volume.
> Error _org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.UnknownError_.
> Details:
> An unexpected error occured
> 
> My USB connection experience with this Archos has been mixed.
> It works OK on the FreeBSD I use daily,
> but I usually need to wait a few seconds before /dev/da?
> shows up after connecting it.
> 
> I tried to connect it to Solaris box running Solaris 10
> last year, but it refused to automount (USB flash drives
> worked fine, as did the Archos V2 noted above).
> 
> dmesg(8) on my daily box running 6.1-R reports:
> 
> umass1: ARCHOS Gminixs, rev 2.00/1.50, addr 5
> umass1: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED)
> da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
> da1: <USB-HS HTC426020G7CE00 0.01> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device 
> da1: 1.000MB/s transfers
> da1: 19077MB (39070080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2432C)
> 
> I offer this as a data point, since I'm looking to part
> with this particular bit of hardware given that the Archos
> firmware is lame, and the Rockbox porting effort for the
> Gmini appears to be all-but-dead
> (which is a shame, since it's such a nifty
> little piece of hardware).

You need to follow the steps at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 when reporting HAL
problems.

Joe

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